The Delta independent., 1887-01-25
TELEGRAPH BRE7TlIES.
Sunset Cox is seriously iii.

Sunset Cox is seriously Ill.
Mr. Cockreii has been reelected
Senator from Missouri.
The Interstate Commerce bill passed
the House by vote of 2s9 to Al.
Three persons were killed and 4
number stupehed by escaping gas in Troy,
New York.
Alderman McQuade, OF New York,
has been taken to Sing Sing and set to work
in the laundry department
After long struggle Mr.. A. S, Pad
dock. has been elected U. s. Senator from
Nebraska to succeed Mr.. Van Wyck.
The remains of General Hazen were
inferred in Oak Hill cemetery, Washing
ton, with military honors on the 10Th.
ID. Armour. of Chicago, is fighting
the Brickayers' Union in their demand
work.
At Cleveland, Ohio, the wife of
Vaclaw Cablek killed three of her children,
fatally stabbed two others, and then hanged
herself.
1t will cost $6,54O,87S to collect the
customs revenues for the ensuing year, ac-
cording to the estimates of the Secretary of
the Treasury.
The Blackfcot tribe of Indians have
signed treaty whereby they relinquish 700
western Montana.
During the recent cold snap in De-
troit Ex-Governor Alger quietly supplied
500 needy families with barrel of flour and
ton of coal each.
A panic occurred in u small theater
London, caused by false alarm. Seventeen
persons were tramped to death and many
others were injured.
The Germans are noting the fact that
France is gathering great number of
troops on the frontier, and is erecting wood
en- barracks for them.
The people of Idaho have sent pro-
test to Washington against the proposed
addition of a part of that Territory to the
Territory of Washington.
A New York policeman, in firing at
fleeing prisoner in Center street, shot and
killed young man who was standing in the
door of his fathers drug store.
A trunk in baggage car on the Penn
sylvania road, which must have contained
some dynamite, exploded, wrecking the car
and causing general CONSERVATION.
A young man in Louisville, KY,
while kissing his sweetheart goodnight
was taken with a choking sensation in his
throat, from which he almost Immediately
died.
An army of $50 policemen and bal
lifts were employed to evict nine families
from the Winn estates in County Kerry.
The people were turned out and their houses
burned.
A New York astrologer named De
Leon told reporter he had sent 400 girls
down to Panama for immoral purposes. He
is under arrest on an Indictment of kid
mapping.
The bills granting pensions to Mrs.
Logan and Mrs. Blair have been reported
upon adversely by the House Committee on
Pensions. They think 1t is setting bad
precedent.
Rumors of war between France and
Germany are becoming more and more fire.
quent. There seems to be no question but
that France is lnassing large body of
troops ON the frontier.
Two German spies were arrested in
Lyons, France, for attempting to bribe
French soldier to obtain for them one of the
new repeating rifles with which the French
army is to be equipped.
Reports from Texas say that in the
western part of that State there are at least
30, 900 people who either are or soon will be
destitute, owing to the terrible drouths.
Help is required Immediately.
A party of boys who were encour-
aged by the coal handlers strikers, were
throwing snow-balls at the Pinkerton
guards in the Lackawanna yards at Jersey
City, were fired upon and one lad was
killed.
Many doctors have testified in the
case of Mrs. Emmons at Washington that
they believe her entirely sane. Women have
been excluded from the court on account
of their expressions of sympathy for Mrs.
EmmOns.
Representative Miller, of Texas, has
introduced in the House bill for the relief
of depositOrs in theFreedman's 'sSavingBan
The bill is framed on the recommendations
of the Comptroller Of Currency, and appro-
pirates 81 900, 900 for the ief of the depos-
itors in that bank.
President Adams, of the Union Pa
cifc Railroad, has written letter to the
Chairman of the Committee on Pacific rail-
roads in the House regarding the proposed
investigation into the financial transactions
Of those roads. He says that during the
past fifteen years his road has been more
frequently and thoroughly investigate than
any other business corporation on earth,
and that from printed reports already made
all desired Information can be obtained, but
he begs him II another examinations is made
to have 1t made by men of such character
as will make 1t thorough and satisfactory to
everyone, SO that 1t may forever put stop
to those vague and scandalous assertions
which afford such infinite possibilities to
the stock gamblers